Rigby Reading

Unit 1 - American Journeys
Theme 1: American Dreams

Modeled Reading: Historical Fiction - Oranges on Golden MountainVocabulary: ambition, gleaming, flourishedSkill: Model and Introduce Making Connections

Shared Reading - Two Homes Vocabulary: ancestor, artifactSkill: Making ConnectionsGenre: Interview

Interactive Reading: Realistic Fiction - Mystery of the Box in the Wall Vocabulary: Review wk1- Week 2: cautious, youth, immigrant Skill: Practice Making Connections, Main Idea and Details

Interactive Reading - Poem - Working on the Transcontinental Railroad \Vocabulary: prosper, settlerSkill: Making Connections, Contractions, Main Idea and Details

Interactive Reading - Biography - Sam Goldwyn, Picture ThisVocabulary: Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Apply in Learning GameSkill: Making connections, Main Idea and Details, Comparing and Contrasting

Shared and Interactive Writing Process - Writing Process Introduction Organizational Pattern - Ideas/Details Form: Interview

Comprehension Bridge: Making Connections

Writing Bridge: Ideas/Details

Grammar: Declarative and Interrogative Sentences, Imperative and Exclamatory Sentences; Interjections Subjects/Predicates Short Vowels

Skills: Character's Traits and Motivations, Comparing and Contrasting, Sentence Structure, Making Connections

Theme 2: A Place For Us

Modeled Reading: Expository - Coming to America: The Story of ImmigrationVocabulary: permanent, relocation, originSkill: Determining Importance

Shared Reading: Historical Fiction - Family TreasuresVocabulary: regulate, necessitiesGenre: Historical FictionSkill: Story Structure, Determining ImportanceFluency: Convey Emotion and Meaning

Interactive Reading: Expository - The World on Your PlateVocabulary: Discuss, Reflect and Refine; Apply in Learning Game - week 1; Week 2: belief, border, accompanySkill: Determining Importance

Interactive Reading: Poem - Celebrating Our RootsVocabulary: audience, nationalitySkill: Determining Importance; Theme

Interactive Reading: Play - The FairVocabulary: Review - Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Apply in Learning GameSkill: Making Connections, Answering Questions

Shared and Interactive Writing: Trait: Trait Introduction Form: Story

Comprehension Bridge: Main Idea

Writing Bridge: Trait Trait: Trait Introduction Form: Story

Grammar: Subjects and Predicates (Simple and Complete); Subject-Verb Agreement

Skills: Answering Questions, Using Story Structure, Determining Importance, Subjects and Predicates

Unit 2 - Remarkable Living ThingsTheme 3: So Many Kinds of Animals

Modeled Reading: Seal Vocabulary: variety, species, researchers Skill: Inferencing

Shared Reading: Weird Animals Vocabulary: abandon, definite Genre: Expository, Bar Graph - Non-fiction feature Skill: Inferencing

Interactive Reading: Slimy, Spiny RiddlesVocabulary: Review, Apply in Learning Game - week 1; week 2 - characteristic, identity, catergorizeSkill: Inferencing

Interactive Reading: Vertebrate or Invertabrate - What's My ID?Vocabulary: invertebrate, vertebrateSkill: Inferencing; Abbreviations

Interactive Reading: AnimalsVocabulary: Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Learning GameSkill: Determining Importance; Inferencing

Shared and Interactive Writing Process - Pre-writing Trait - Ideas Form: Report

Comprehension Bridge: Determining Importance, Inferencing

Writing Bridge: Applying Ideas, Report

Grammar: Types of Sentences, Nouns

Skills: Inferencing, Determining Importance, Types of Sentences, Nouns

Theme 4: Seeds, Fruits, and Flowers

Modeled Reading: Expository - Century FarmVocabulary: require, pollinate, equipmentSkill: Creating Images

Shared Reading - Mrs. McClary's Very Weird GardenVocabulary: reproduction, centurySkill: Creating ImagesGenre: Realistic Fiction

Interactive Reading: Waking Up a Bean Vocabulary: Review wk1- Week 2: criteria, conditions, germinate Skill: Images, Sequencing

Interactive Reading - Poem - Ode to the Giant RedwoodVocabulary: cones, adaptSkill: Images, Metaphor

Interactive Reading - The Pea BlossomVocabulary: Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Apply in Learning GameSkill: Inferencing, Creating Images

Shared and Interactive Writing Process - Prewriting Organizational Pattern - Sequencing Form: Report

Comprehension Bridge: Creating Images, Inferencing

Writing Bridge: Pre-writing, Sequencing

Grammar: Proper Nouns, Combining Sentences

Skills: Images, Sequencing, Proper Nouns, Inferencing

Unit 3 - Across the USA
Theme 5: One Country, Many Regions

Modeled Reading: FirestormVocabulary: canyon, region, surroundSkill: Fix-Up Strategies

Shared Reading - The Superstition MountainVocabulary: solution, denseSkill: Fix-Up StrategiesGenre: Personal NarrativeFluency: Convey Emotion and Meaning

Interactive Reading: Who Believes in Buried Treasure? Vocabulary: Review wk1- Week 2: aspect, impact, alter Skill: Synonyms and Antonyms, Fix-Up Strategies

Interactive Reading - This Land is Your LandVocabulary: climate, plateauSkill: Fix-Up Strategies, Contractions

Interactive Reading - Take a Virtual Field TripVocabulary: Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Apply in Learning GameSkill: Creating Images, Fix-Up Strategies

Shared and Interactive Writing Process - Drafting Organizational Pattern - Incorporating Dialogue Form: Personal Narrative

Comprehension Bridge: Use Fix-Up Strategies, Creating Images

Writing Bridge: Drafting, Personal Narrative

Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns, Singular and Plural Nouns

Skills: Fix-Up Strategies, Synonyms and Antonyms, Contractions, Creating Images, Multiple-Meaning Words

Theme 6: The Land Shapes People's Lives

Modeled Reading: Arctic Lights, Arctic NightsVocabulary: farmland, fertile, vastSkill: Homonyms, Synthesize

Shared Reading - My A-mazing Summer VacationVocabulary: horizon, reflectionSkill: Synthesize, PlotGenre: Realistic Fiction

Interactive Reading: Memoir: The Gigantic Redwoods Vocabulary: Review wk1- Week 2: cautious, youth, immigrant Skill: Synthesize

Interactive Reading - Poem - Key West, FloridaVocabulary: port, altitudeSkill: Setting, Synthesize

Interactive Reading - Mountain HomesteadVocabulary: Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Apply in Learning GameSkill: Fix-Up Strategies, Synthesize

Shared and Interactive Writing Process - Writing Process Introduction Organizational Pattern - Problem/Solution Trait: Organization

Comprehension Bridge: Synthesize

Writing Bridge: Organization, Problem-Solution

Grammar: Possessive Nouns, Homonyms, Verbs

Skills: Synthesize, Homonyms, Fix-Up Strategies, Problem and Solution

Unit 4: Thinking Like a Scientist
Theme 7: Why Does Water Move?

Modeled Reading: Very Last First TimeVocabulary:visible, tide, shoreSkill: Helping Verbs, Monitor Understanding

Shared Reading - Making Waves Vocabulary: chisel, wedgeSkill: Monitor UnderstandingGenre: Procedural Non-Fiction Feature: Flow Chart

Interactive Reading: Realistic Fiction - Typhoon! Vocabulary: Review wk1- Week 2: swift, analyze, model Skill: Monitor Understanding

Interactive Reading - Poem - The VesselVocabulary: current, coastlineSkill: Monitor Understanding, Analogies

Interactive Reading - Fighting Coastal Erosion: Why We Should Save Our WetlandsVocabulary: Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Apply in Learning GameSkill: Review Synthesize, Monitor Understanding

Shared and Interactive Writing Trait: Voice Organizational Pattern - Sequence

Comprehension Bridge: Monitor Understanding

Writing Bridge: Voice

Grammar: Verbs: Helping, Action, and Linking

Skills: Monitor Understanding, Synthesize, Sequence, Verbs

Theme 8: What Makes Soil Different?

Modeled Reading: The Living EarthVocabulary:consist, geology, propertySkill: Adjectives, Asking Questions

Shared Reading - A Very Dirty SubjectVocabulary: layer, artificialSkill: Asking QuestionsGenre: Fantasy

Interactive Reading: Case of Vanishing Soil Vocabulary: Review wk1- Week 2: combine, seperate, texture Skill: Asking Questions

Interactive Reading - Poem - What Does Weather Do To Soil?Vocabulary: replace, particlesSkill: Asking Questions, Alliteration

Interactive Reading - Black BlizzardVocabulary: Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Apply in Learning GameSkill: Monitor Understanding, Asking Questions

Shared and Interactive Writing Process: Revising Form- Story

Comprehension Bridge: Ask Questions, Monitor Understanding

Writing Bridge: Revising, Story

Grammar: Adjectives

Skills: Asking Questions, Alliteration, Adjectives, Verbs Alliteration Poems

Unit 5: The Early AmericansTheme 9: Native People of North America

Modeled Reading: Folktale - Eagle Boy: A Pacific Northwest Native TaleVocabulary: coastal, waterway, plentiful Skill: Making Connections, Ask Questions

Shared Reading: Biography - SequoyahVocabulary: scarce, population Skill: ConnectionsGenre: Biography; Nonfiction Feature - Time Line Fluency: Reading In Phrases

Interactive Reading: Pourquoi Tale - How the Crow Got Its Color - A Traditional Lakota Vocabulary: plain, survive, surplus Skill: Making Connections

Interactive Reading: Poem - Morning LightVocabulary: vegetation, resourcesSkill: Connections, Symbolism

Interactive Reading: Nonfiction Article - It's Only NaturalVocabulary: Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Learning GameSkill: Asking Questions, Connections

Shared and Interactive Writing Process: Editing Form: Biography

Comprehension Bridge: Making Connections, Ask Questions

Writing Bridge: Process: Editing Forms: Biography

Grammar: Irregular Verbs, Pronouns

Skills: Making Connections, Verbs, Prefixes, Asking Questions, Pronouns

Theme 10: Explorers Arrive

Modeled Reading: Christopher ColumbusVocabulary: claimed, injured, foreign Skill: Determining Importance: Purpose for Reading, Contractions

Shared Reading: Return of Ponce de LeonVocabulary:explorer, cargo Skill: Determine Importance Genre: Play - Identify Character Fluency: Use Punctuation to Inform Meaning

Interactive Reading: Jessie Oonark: Inuit Artist Vocabulary: Review week 1; Week 2: anniversary, valuable, civilization Skill: Determining Importance

Interactive Reading: Poem - My Park, My City Vocabulary: passage, historian Skill: Abbreviations, Determining Importance, Setting, Contractions

Interactive Reading: Exploring the ExplorersVocabulary: Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Learning GameSkill:Connections, Determining Importance

Shared and Interactive Writing Trait: Word Choice Form: Biography Pattern: Problem and Solution

Comprehension Bridge: Determining Importance: Purpose for Reading, Making Connections

Writing Bridge: Process: Word Choice, Problem and Solution

Grammar: Contractions, Pronouns

Skills: Determining Importance, Connections, Problem and Solution, Pronouns, Contractions, Characterization, Purpose and Audience

Unit 6: Under the Canopy
Theme 11: Life in a Rain Forest

Modeled Reading: Great Kapok TreeVocabulary: zone, slither, suspended Skill: Inferencing: Fact/Opinion

Shared Reading: Tiger Talk: What Do You Think?Vocabulary: organism, nutrientsGenre: Persuasive Essay Nonfiction Feature: Circle Graph Skill: Inferencing: Fact/Opinion Fluency: Convey Emotion and Meaning

Interactive Reading: Walking on the TreetopsVocabulary: Discuss, Reflect and Refine; Apply in Learning Game - week 1; Week 2: complex, vital, predator Skill: Infer: Fact/Opinion, Idioms

Interactive Reading: Poem - Sounds of the Rain ForestVocabulary: thrive, prey Skill: Infer: Fact/Opinion, Onomatopoeia

Interactive Reading: Meet Janalee P. Caldwell, Frog DetectiveVocabulary: Review - Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Apply in Learning GameSkill: Idioms, Determine Importance, Fact Opinion

Shared and Interactive Writing: Trait: Sentence Fluency Form: Persuasive Essay Craft: Purpose and Audience

Comprehension Bridge: Fact/Opinion, Determining Importance

Writing Bridge: Trait Trait: Sentence Fluency Form: Persuasive Essay

Grammar: Pronouns, Adjectives: Comparative/Superlative, Articles

Skills: Inferencing, Fact/Opinion, Pronouns, Adjectives, Determine Importance, Idioms, Articles, Onomatopoeia

Theme 12: Affecting the Rain Forest

Modeled Reading: Rickie and HenriVocabulary: beneficial, bewilderment, eventuallySkill: Adverbs, Creating Images, Fact/Opinion

Shared Reading - A Letter to Treetop Products, Inc. Vocabulary: convince, sacraficeSkill: Creating Images, Adverbs, simile Genre: LetterFluency: Use Punctuation to Inform Meaning

Interactive Reading: People of the Rainforest Vocabulary: Review wk1- Week 2: interaction, ecosystem, tropical Skill: Adverbs, Create images

Interactive Reading - Poem - Gorillas in the WildVocabulary: improvement, relationship Skill: Create Images, Prepositions, Rhythm and Rhyme

Interactive Reading - The Forest Has EyesVocabulary: Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Apply in Learning GameSkill: Prepositions, Fact/Opinion, Creating Images

Shared and Interactive Writing Process - Publishing Form: Letter

Comprehension Bridge: Create Images

Writing Bridge: Publishing

Grammar: Adverbs, Prepositions

Skills: Inferencing, Creating Images, Prepositions, Adverbs, Rhythm and Rhyme, Fact/Opinion

Unit 7: Buyers and Sellers
Theme 13: Products and Profits

Modeled Reading: A Band of AngelsVocabulary:fair, discouraged, product Skill: Fix-Up Strategies: Read On, Suffixes, Create Images

Shared Reading -Lemons Against CancerVocabulary: shabby, material Skill: Use Fix-Up Strategies: Read OnGenre: Journal Nonfiction Feature: Bar GraphFluency: Read in Phrases

Interactive Reading: The Shoemaker's Surprise Vocabulary: Review wk1- Week 2: negotiate, inspiration, wealth Skill: Fix Up Strategies, Cause and Effect, Prepositions

Interactive Reading - Poem - A Day for A Dollar Vocabulary: advertise, profit Skill: Suffixes, Fix-Up Strategies, Exaggeration and Hyperbole, Prepositional Phrases

Interactive Reading - A Family Affair Vocabulary: Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Apply in Learning GameSkill: Creating Images, Fix-Up Strategies

Shared and Interactive Writing Process - Prewriting Organizational Pattern - Cause and Effect Craft: Ending Effectively

Comprehension Bridge: Fix-Up Strategies: Read On, Create Images

Writing Bridge: Pre-writing, Cause and Effect

Grammar: Prepositions

Skills: Fix-Up Strategies: Read On, Prepositions, Suffixes, Cause and Effect, Creating Images, Exaggeration and Hyperbole

Theme 14: Buying Smart

Modeled Reading: Boss of the PlainsVocabulary:suggest, impress, brim Skill: Synthesize, Classify and Categorize, Suffixes

Shared Reading -Sunday at the Farmers' MarketVocabulary: supply, demand Skill: Suffixes, Classify and Categorize, Identify Repetition of Language Genre: Poem Fluency: Convey Emotion and Meaning

Interactive Reading: Buy! Buy! Why? Vocabulary: Review wk1- Week 2: purchase, merchant, bargain Skill: Synthesize, Suffixes, Classify and Categorize, Conjunctions

Interactive Reading - Song - Hot Cross Buns and Paperboy's Song Vocabulary: compromise, recommend Skill: Synthesize, Conjunctions, Humor

Interactive Reading - The Two Merchants Vocabulary: Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Apply in Learning GameSkill: Synthesize, Fix-Up Strategies

Shared and Interactive Writing Trait: Conventions Form: Poem

Comprehension Bridge: Synthesize, Fix-Up Strategies

Writing Bridge: Conventions, Poem

Grammar: Coordinate Conjunctions

Skills: Synthesize: Classify and Categorize, Fix-Up Strategies, Conjunctions, Humor

Unit 8: Written in Stone
Theme 15: Earth Long Ago

Modeled Reading: Expository - Dinosaur TreeVocabulary: evidence, fossil, vanish Skill: Monitor Understanding: Genre, Synthesize

Shared Reading: Newspaper Article: T. Rex Sold to Field MuseumVocabulary: examine, scrape Genre: Newspaper Article Nonfiction Feature: DiagramSkill: Genre, Interjections Fluency: Read in Phrases

Interactive Reading: The HatchlingVocabulary: Discuss, Reflect and Refine; Apply in Learning Game - week 1; Week 2: extinction, recognize, method Skill: Genre, Interjections

Interactive Reading: Poem - Ancient Masters of the EarthVocabulary: prehistoric, threat Skill: Compound Words, Genre, Personification

Interactive Reading: Nate Murphy and the Mystery SauropodVocabulary: Review - Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Apply in Learning GameSkill: Classify and Categorize, Genre

Shared and Interactive Writing: Trait: Presentation Form: Newspaper Article Craft: Use Nonfiction Features

Comprehension Bridge: Genre, Synthesize

Writing Bridge: Trait Trait: Presentation Form: Newspaper Article

Grammar: Interjections, Conjunctions, Independent and Dependent Clauses

Skills: Genre, Interjections, Diagrams, Synthesize, Conjunctions, Independent and Dependent Clauses

Theme 16: Wearing Away

Modeled Reading: Grand Canyon: A Trail Through TimeVocabulary: ancient, splendor, significant Skill: Asking Questions: Meaning, Double Consonant, Genre

Shared Reading: Saving Mammoth CaveVocabulary:erosion, composition Genre: Diary Skill: Foreshadowing and Flashback, Ask Questions, Compare and Contrast Fluency: Using Punctuation to Inform Meaning

Interactive Reading: Race Against Time: David Sucec Records Ancient ArtVocabulary: Discuss, Reflect and Refine; Apply in Learning Game - week 1; Week 2: prevent, previous, survey Skill: Ask Questions: Meaning, Homophones, Compare and Contrast

Interactive Reading: Photo Essay - Swept AwayVocabulary: glacie, weathering Skill: Genre: Photo Essay, Ask Questions, Irregular Verbs, Homophones, Compare and Contrast

Interactive Reading: Case of the Missing CapsuleVocabulary: Review - Structured Discussion, Reflect and Refine, Apply in Learning GameSkill: Genre, Ask Questions, Irregular Verbs, Compare and Contrast

Shared and Interactive Writing: Process: Editing Organizational Pattern: Compare and Contrast

Comprehension Bridge: Ask Questions, Monitor Understanding: Genre

Writing Bridge: Trait Process: Editing Organizational Pattern: Compare and Contrast

Grammar: Homophones

Skills: Asking Questions, Compare and Contrast, Irregular Verbs, Homophones